Barbados
Business advocacy wins markets in Barbados
This case study describes how the private and public sectors of Barbados worked together to ensure the country was able to secure better market access for its tourism service providers and investors under the CARIFORUM-EU EPA.
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Barbados
Reply to the United Nations national accounts questionnaire from the Barbados Statistical Service, Bridgetown, St. Michael. Official estimates are provided by the Statistical Service and published in the "Annual Statistical Digest" of the Central Bank of Barbados.
The UN and UNDP role
Chapter 3 provides background information about the UN role and presence in the Eastern Caribbean subregion, as well as on the UNDP subregional programme’s organization, management systems and financial and budgetary arrangements.
Executive summary
‘Assessment of Development Results: Evaluation of UNDP Contribution –Countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and Barbados’ was planned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Evaluation Office and conducted by a team of five independent consultants between May and August 2008, in line with Executive Board Decision 2007/24. The Assessment of Development Results (ADR) covers the period since 2001, when UNDP took a subregional approach to programming in 10 countries: Barbados and the nine members and associate members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).
Foreword
This is an independent country-level evaluation called the Assessment of Development Results (ADR) in Indonesia, conducted by the Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This evaluation examined the relevance and strategic positioning of UNDP support and its contributions to the country’s development from 2001 to 2010. It assessed UNDP Indonesia’s interventions under the five thematic areas of the country programmes, with an intention to provide forward-looking recommendations that are useful for the formulation of the new UNDP country programme in Indonesia.
Contribution to development results
This Chapter summarizes the main findings concerning UNDP work in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean from 2001 to the present. The focus is on analysing progress towards the original results identified in both the SCF (2001–2003) and SPD (2005–2009) according to the four thematic areas of governance, poverty reduction, environment and disaster management/ mitigation. For each area, a table summarizing performance has been prepared.
Conclusions, lessons learned and recommendations
The final Chapter summarizes the main conclusions from the ADR, followed by specific recommendations for consideration by UNDP. Given that conclusions are onlymeant to be a general overview of the programme, note that conclusions and recommendations do not correspond on a one-to-one basis. Lessons learned are intended to be generalized to the broader programme and/or organizational context, if applicable. Recommendations are aimed at addressing the main challenges identified in the previous sections in order to strengthen UNDP contribution to national and subregional development results. They are presented in such a way as to help the main stakeholders generate further multistakeholder consultations, leading to options or alternatives for programme improvement.
Cross-cutting and operational issues
This Chapter summarizes the main findings concerning cross-cutting and operational issues in the UNDP subregional programme, including gender, HIV/AIDS, South-South cooperation, capacity development and programme management.
Subregional development context
This Chapter provides an overview of the main development issues, themes and trends in the Eastern Caribbean subregion, including key demographic, socio-economic and institutional factors that directly influenced the UNDP programme planning and implementation approach.
Barbados
The fiscal result for 2002/2003 was a deficit bigger than the one recorded in the previous fiscal year (12.0% of GDP, as opposed to 11.0% in 2001/2002; excluding amortization and net enterprises, the percentages were 5.6% and 3.8%). This resulted from an increase in expenditure (from 42% to 44% of GDP between the two periods), since the tax/GDP ratio remained constant at 32%. In an effort to avoid increasing in its external debt stock (19% of GDP at the end of 2002), the government financed its deficit from domestic sources, particularly through the ways and means accounts and by drawing on government deposits held at the Central Bank.